all three broadcast video for your media project free media r t v dot com. week's top stories on today's news egypt's opposition calls for more protests as president percy refuses to scrap the referendum on the new islamist based constitution. rebels in syria come together under one military command meanwhile more global calls to prevent the government from using chemical weapons are increasingly seen as a pretext for intervention. and massive violence to see palestinians liberated as a militant group march twenty five years in action israel faces the pressure to stop building more settlements.

this is the weekly news review here on r.t. on kerry johnston. egypt's opposition is calling for more protests to present mercy insisted on planning ahead with a referendum on the new constitution which is viewed by many is discriminatory even his decision to scrap the decree which had granted him almost absolute power was dismissed as a play on words with journalists true in cairo says his unexpected u. turn has failed to ease tensions. it does come as a bit of a surprise at the moment as people were really thinking the president wouldn't move on his stance against the opposition forces demands yesterday's saturday they had a meeting which was dubbed the national dialogue meeting between political party leaders the president and his cabinet notably some of the key opposition forces that for the national salvation front that are behind the protests and sit ins in the last few weeks not present the results of the controversial constitution that gratian would be revoked which of course is president morsi sweeping powers which

is part of one of the demands of the opposition forces and widely seen as a good move however they run them on the constitution which the opposition forces see to be illegitimate as it was drafted by islamists clinching the curation constituent somebody would go ahead on the fifteenth and this is why the problem lies the opposition forces replied yesterday saying that the results of the meeting were meaningless as the president hasn't seen to move forward with that demand against this referendum. that it was really just another form of deception this comes off the minute she stepped up security around the presidential palace in the last two days that you see just yesterday saying that they were calling for dialogue as this was the only way to get the nation out of its crisis implying that perhaps they were willing to take a role in the ongoing situation in egypt we've seen quite a lot of violence on the streets since this one second of november when this concert of the victory was announced by the president as rival groups have met in

class which is actually the deaths of at least seven people on wednesday we have yet to see really what will happen in the in the coming future the president keeps by this referendum and i'm sure that the opposition forces won't move to really even though we had this development yesterday at this meeting they're still looking at the divided egypt's political deadlock. well middle east history professor lawrence davidson says there's no chance most evil counsellor referendum and that without dialogue the situation may spiral into civil war if there was a lot of the vote goes you get more sure as you get that constitution pass. and i think the opposition knows that even if. there are forty they want to stop that vote i think would go through tears there is a leadership that was once here is that they want to start the process all over again it was zero actually they want a new election everyone in new orleans and.

new constitution so what are you going to do you're going to try to keep them out of power if you try to change the match for. this a civil war risk we're going the islamist into the students. population who. i don't think goes for bush. so we're it's a very very dangerous situation it's a bit of my own situation she asked how do you. looks to me a bit more seems willing to make some concessions but they're going to have to talk to him to get out and just force it's not work syria's rebels have joined forces on the one that military command which they hope will unite diverse groups in the western backed struggle against president assad

this week the international community again voiced fans that the syrian government could deploy chemical weapons to defeat opposition parties something damascus denies coming to account assesses whether the chemical austral is a real threat or pretext for intervention. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent a unmistakable message that this would cross a red line next how does america the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of the syrian government's alleged plans citing secret intelligence for fox news confirms that syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized

and at the ready the syrian government flatly denied the possibility saying it would not use such weapons against its people. we would not commit suicide we fear there is a conspiracy to provide a pretext for any subsequent interventions in syria by these countries during creasing pressure on syria the syrian government sure knows that if they use chemical weapons it would give nato and some of their arab neighbors who are itching to intervene in syria the green light to go ahead with their plans damascus itself says it would be suicidal for them to do so but with the fear and the hype building up over the use of chemical weapons against civilians in syria it seems the u.s. might be preparing grounds to jump the gun on this one the jumping the gun scenario is not new for the u.s. almost ten years ago the bush administration confidently presented false evidence to invade iraq we have an descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails the invasion triggered

a civil war that killed more than one hundred thousand innocent iraqis and years later all washington had to say about this was the president thought it was correct congress thought it was of course i regret that it turned out a lot of it was wrong in the run up to the iraq invasion the us media was instrumental in selling the case to the public the congress never had any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction all came from tony blair. bush who writes now that the u.s. has drawn a red line on syria it has made it clear it's ready to take action but how i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of. credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we are certainly planning to. take action if that eventuality were to occur two american warships are

already near the syrian coast with some. one thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's border with syria meaning hundreds more u.s. and european troops will be deployed to the frontier nato says deploying patriot missiles along syrian borders is a defensive step to prevent syria from attacking turkey i don't think there's any requirement whatsoever for patriot batteries on the ground in turkey again the patriot missiles are designed to really protect primarily against incoming fire ballistic missiles or aircraft the syrians are not going to attack the turks the church of the most powerful military establishment in the region the largest army in nato intervention in syria will be as bad if not worse than what we experienced in iraq the pentagon said they would need seventy five thousand troops to secure syria's weapons of mass destruction the question on everyone's mind is are they

seriously considering that kind of a mess of intervention because that could mean another you rock coming soon an invasion that could be followed by years of bloody civil war in washington i'm going to check on. the concerns over the syrian government's chemical stockpile reached a critical level this week of course it has begun mixing weapons components and delivery systems times correspondent says the possible movement of the storm is to put them out of the reach of militants. every massacre that happens anywhere even in the suburbs of damascus we know these are people there if you train it by islamists games as well and sometimes these are protected by these weapons against themselves supported by saudi arabia or some by cats or logistical support by turkey buying weapons in the black market the in the middle east and that's part of ukraine as we already know we have to analyze the picture of missiles at the border

with that latest high why do you usually hear the name u.s. officials of chemical weapons being deployed that ourselves are just completely absurd hype to say that they are right the mixing of the components the components are mixed when you already have a weapon already loaded with this components which are kept separate and then the chemical reaction itself happens inside the whistle after it has been wrong for more bodies mixing any saying at the moment what we may speculate but with a certain degree of reason is that the league moving some of these chemical weapons so they won't be captured by some of this is not just gangs in fact at beechwood missile is an attack weapon it's not a deterrent and i don't know especially considering that the syrian army would never launched missiles across the border against circuits because they know they will be attacking our nato ally and. well britain is heading towards five more

years of austerity the treasury treif insists that the contacts will help a country a strong economy that's coming up. also off the brake and i supply just to liberate palestine in the ninety's inch by inch as israel fuses to abandon its settlements construction. the sun rises over what seems like and list forest but here in the new directions climb hundred kilometers north of light. stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. blogger's both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forest of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be

easy the forests or nets and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they have twelve tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. to. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the

region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it. no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone what will the people who live after. it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. it watching artie's weekly news review britain is heading into the future hand in hand with austerity but the government extending its massive cuts program for five more years that's in addition to the already existing cuts in public spending pensions will be raided even more with those on welfare suffering as well arty's

a surfer through ports. well everyone now madly picking their way through the facts and figures and while we're there a lot at stake is one thing that was very very clear and so the u.k. is set to face even more austerity now what those figures showed us was that the u.k. economy is going to shrink by not point one percent by the end of twenty twelve now it sounds like a small amount but of course no sign of that all important in fact what we're seeing is that borrowing has gone up we've seen that the debt has risen and fallen and most crucially i think is probably the fact that the government have missed the reduction target so we're now facing an extended austerity program is going to take its right away three twenty eighteenth's a pretty gloomy outlook and this is what we were expecting but of course that's going to really not be what millions of families all across the again to one thing

here and of course this is really going to effect in real terms to speak to us more about this autumn statement by the chancellor today i'm joined by a labor m.p. and the public i said a public health minister thank you for joining us so the british economy is slowly healing according to chancellor george osborne what was your reaction to that well i thought that was a very silly statement the truth is every prophecy every target of themselves he has failed he has not met his targets he's not going to deal with the deficit as he said the road growth will grow and also there's going to be a huge cart made in benefits pavement to some of the poorest people because we are going to suffer the most i was resolved to go for it and those who are into this will start to get some now when it's talked about because we saw that just one percent for the benefit of the welfare bill and that's less than inflation you know

that's really going to hit a huge you know. it's about forty seven billion pounds from the benefits bill and we're talking about farmers is a really on the bread line anyway even losing ten twenty pounds is a big i mean it's a very cold day outside and it's a very cold prospect for britain's poor because they are going to bear the brunt of the austerity caused by britain by also doesn't know what he's doing thank you very much for joining us also say there's a lot of course the concern is he said i won't take anything the thing is the one thing i think through all of. us the ek is going to be said to have to pray for. even all austerity. garza's leadership has vowed to keep fighting until the israeli occupation is over as hundreds of thousands of supporters turned up to celebrate the militant group's twenty fifth anniversary masses a political leader. who runs the organization from qatar is now in gaza for the

first time in four decades in a speech labeled as extremist by israel refused to recognize the jewish state's legitimacy because of its occupation because it comes amid a turbulent time for the region israel has refused to end settlement expansion which has been denounced by the international community announce the building of a new settler homes near east jerusalem after palestine was granted nonmember observer status at un at least expert going to merck says israel has even sowed nations with one of its allies germany. we really made it very clear that we are totally against the continuing new settlements in the west bank and in jerusalem because this will definitely make the two state solution impossible because if this building so going on the west bank will be split into the access to jerusalem will not be possible for the bills thing is any more the reaction by mr netanyahu and

others were very strong and unusually undiplomatic. you could say just before his visit to berlin condemning the stand of germany and the fact that the foreign minister lieberman with some lame excuses did not come to berlin to meet his counterpart our foreign minister rest of ela also shows that the moment there are lots of tensions among the politicians in germany and in israel. and israel exports tons of fruit and vegetables cosmetics and other goods the e.u. every year but despite being labeled as made in israel some of these don't exactly originate from there many are produced in settlements considered illegal under international law now there are calls to ban such exports or at least enforce more accurate labeling on peter oliver i should say investigates. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this

farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims e.u. imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in legal settlements your see farms this land is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. because i was told here you can. go and so i circled where i was told they could do it to morrow the state of israel told me time to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i got here there was

nothing. and we made it. in denmark and the united kingdom goods coming from settlements in the west bank already has to be marked differently to denote that it's not from israel the collective n.g.o.s want to see this implemented europe wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from this is are you sure this comes from spain. ella is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even even the few things they get jordan they really checkpoints keep them at the checkpoints for days. and then you can't even vegetables anymore those behind the report into trade between the settlements in europe say they

aren't trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel itself we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. legal israeli products which should be washed. by european citizens as much the course is short and settlement products which are totally legal and should be banned and people should not be. online today there's international role reversal with a warning you can gresham this time it's the moment the sound down against united states texas in the valley that washington accused of double standards it's nothing the u.n. nuclear watchdog force on our website. and check out the new must say these benefits sixty three percent taken delivery of his you might take eco friendly wheels including a thriving comfortable cruising among the crowds. spain's

beleaguered banks can breathe easier now the euro zone approved the forty billion euro rescue package for them is the first tranche of the bailed out to greet in june which is worth a total one hundred billion euros the public's not taking well day as people continue to suffer from tough cuts while the banks got a helping hand record unemployment and a crippling recession that spain continues to deny that it needs a sovereign bailout. politician two on monday says the government has brought the crisis on itself. there is a fundamental flaw in the banking system which is. the government has basically taken over the banks the greed of the banking cartel degree of the central bank bailout banks. money that is not covered by anything the government intervening too much in the market. and the way to solve the problem is by

government were growing by shrinking the role of government by getting government to spend less and less and regulate less that's what comic back in order that's one of. the job where you grow again i don't hear. so. saying. somebody who's being supported by government is only a very short term solution in the long term it is a disaster. when update for you now and some of the day's other top stories that is when president here chavez has spoken publicly for the first time about his successor off announcing he's suffering from cancer again he was to return to cuba for further treatment in surgery in the coming days but during a speech on state t.v. he named vice president nicolas maduro as his emplacement should anything happen to him the news comes just two months after chavez was reelected in a tight vote. protesters have clashed with police and a ruling party activists in atlanta actually counseled the car at least two people

were killed and nearly two hundred injured when the authorities fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds blocking roads and torched vehicles demanding constitutional changes ahead of next year's election. and u.s. drone attack targeting a suspected militant hideout has killed at least three people in pakistan four missiles struck a residential compound in northwest of the country which are officials saying a senior al qaeda commander was among the victims pakistan as previously stated that such attacks by unmanned aircraft violated sovereignty and ineffective but the u.s. considers them a vital weapon in the battle against taliban and al qaeda extremists. from north korea may postpone its controversial rocket test for later this month has given no reason for the delay but it's the want to be due to heavy snow around the launch site secluded state insists it's only launching a satellite but the u.s.

japan and south korea are among those who think it's really conducting a ballistic missile test tokyo is threatening to shoot down the rocket if it poses a threat. coming our party travels to the nevada desert to learn about the famous burning man festival stay with us.

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